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Overview

Tai-ping Sun is affiliated with Duke University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research primarily focuses on Plant Science and Molecular Biology, with additional work related to Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Organic Chemistry, and Biomedical Engineering.

The main research topics covered by Tai-ping Sun include:

  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Plant Reproductive Biology
  • Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research
  • Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications
  • Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls
  • Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism

The scientist's recent papers illustrate a focus on plant growth regulation, molecular mechanisms, and protein modifications related to plant development. Selected publications include:

  • Highlights in gibberellin research: A tale of the dwarf and the slender (2024), published in PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • Four class A AUXIN RESPONSE FACTORs promote tomato fruit growth despite suppressing fruit set (2023), published in Nature Plants
  • Novel nucleocytoplasmic protein O-fucosylation by SPINDLY regulates diverse developmental processes in plants (2021), published in Current Opinion in Structural Biology
  • The master growth regulator DELLA binding to histone H2A is essential for DELLA-mediated global transcription regulation (2023), published in Nature Plants
  • SPINDLYO-fucosylates nuclear and cytoplasmic proteins involved in diverse cellular processes in plants (2023), published in PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Tai-ping Sun frequently publishes in venues such as Nature Communications, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, Nature Plants, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Current Opinion in Structural Biology.

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Rodolfo Zentella
  • Jianhong Hu
  • Jeffrey Shabanowitz
  • Donald F. Hunt
  • Yan Wang

Best Publications

  • Gibberellin signaling: biosynthesis, catabolism, and response pathways.

    Neil Olszewski;Tai Ping Sun;Frank Gubler

  • Genetic Characterization and Functional Analysis of the GID1 Gibberellin Receptors in Arabidopsis

    Jayne Griffiths;Kohji Murase;Ivo Rieu;Rodolfo Zentella

  • MOLECULAR MECHANISM OF GIBBERELLIN SIGNALING IN PLANTS

    Tai-ping Sun;Frank Gubler

  • Plant hormone jasmonate prioritizes defense over growth by interfering with gibberellin signaling cascade

    Dong Lei Yang;Jian Yao;Chuan Sheng Mei;Xiao Hong Tong

  • The Arabidopsis RGA Gene Encodes a Transcriptional Regulator Repressing the Gibberellin Signal Transduction Pathway

    Aron L. Silverstone;Charles N. Ciampaglio;Tai-ping Sun

  • Global Analysis of DELLA Direct Targets in Early Gibberellin Signaling in Arabidopsis

    Rodolfo Zentella;Zhong-Lin Zhang;Mehea Park;Stephen G. Thomas

  • Gibberellin-induced DELLA recognition by the gibberellin receptor GID1

    Kohji Murase;Yoshinori Hirano;Tai-ping Sun;Toshio Hakoshima

  • The Arabidopsis F-Box Protein SLEEPY1 Targets Gibberellin Signaling Repressors for Gibberellin-Induced Degradation

    Alyssa Dill;Stephen G. Thomas;Jianhong Hu;Camille M. Steber

  • DELLA Proteins and Gibberellin-Regulated Seed Germination and Floral Development in Arabidopsis

    Ludmila Tyler;Stephen G. Thomas;Jianhong Hu;Alyssa Dill

  • The Arabidopsis SLEEPY1 Gene Encodes a Putative F-Box Subunit of an SCF E3 Ubiquitin Ligase

    Karen M. McGinnis;Stephen G. Thomas;Jonathan D. Soule;Lucia C. Strader

  • Brassinosteroid, gibberellin and phytochrome impinge on a common transcription module in Arabidopsis.

    Ming Yi Bai;Jian Xiu Shang;Jian Xiu Shang;Eunkyoo Oh;Min Fan

  • The Arabidopsis GA1 locus encodes the cyclase ent-kaurene synthetase A of gibberellin biosynthesis.

    Tai-ping Sun;Yuji Kamiya

  • A DELLAcate balance: the role of gibberellin in plant morphogenesis

    Christine M. Fleet;Tai Ping Sun

  • Repressing a Repressor: Gibberellin-Induced Rapid Reduction of the RGA Protein in Arabidopsis

    Aron L. Silverstone;Hou-Sung Jung;Alyssa Dill;Hiroshi Kawaide

  • Regulation of hormone metabolism in Arabidopsis seeds: phytochrome regulation of abscisic acid metabolism and abscisic acid regulation of gibberellin metabolism

    Mitsunori Seo;Atsushi Hanada;Ayuko Kuwahara;Akira Endo

  • PIL5, a Phytochrome-Interacting bHLH Protein, Regulates Gibberellin Responsiveness by Binding Directly to the GAI and RGA Promoters in Arabidopsis Seeds

    Eunkyoo Oh;Shinjiro Yamaguchi;Jianhong Hu;Jikumaru Yusuke

  • The Molecular Mechanism and Evolution of the GA–GID1–DELLA Signaling Module in Plants

    Tai Ping Sun

  • Synergistic Derepression of Gibberellin Signaling by Removing RGA and GAI Function in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Alyssa Dill;Tai-ping Sun

  • The DELLA motif is essential for gibberellin-induced degradation of RGA

    Alyssa Dill;Hou-Sung Jung;Tai-ping Sun

  • Phytochrome Regulation and Differential Expression of Gibberellin 3β-Hydroxylase Genes in Germinating Arabidopsis Seeds

    Shinjiro Yamaguchi;Maria W. Smith;Robert G. S. Brown;Yuji Kamiya

Frequent Co-Authors

Shinjiro Yamaguchi
Shinjiro Yamaguchi Kyoto University
Yuji Kamiya
Yuji Kamiya RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
Stephen G. Thomas
Stephen G. Thomas Rothamsted Research
Tuan Vo-Dinh
Tuan Vo-Dinh Duke University
Zhen-Ming Pei
Zhen-Ming Pei Duke University
Neil E. Olszewski
Neil E. Olszewski University of Minnesota
Toshio Hakoshima
Toshio Hakoshima Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Howard M. Goodman
Howard M. Goodman Harvard University
Frederick M. Ausubel
Frederick M. Ausubel Harvard University

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